The Need For Corporate Worship

“I suggest that the modern cultivated person is over-estimating his power of maintaining contact with the realm of the spiritual in his present condition… He imagines in his self-sufficiency that he can get along satisfactorily without rites and ceremonies, without private disciplines, without associating himself on a religious basis with a group of his fellow men. But the plain fact is that he cannot – unless he is a very exceptional person indeed. The great mass of more highly educated men and women today – those anyway of a more spiritual type – are psychologically unstable, restless, unfulfilled, and morbidly self-conscious.”
~Lawrence Hyde